Weird lines show up in rasters when plotting to PDF

[urbankristen]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been addressed before, but my searches to this forum revealed nothing so here goes.

I am a newbie teaching myself autocad with no guidance as there is no one else in my org who knows how to use it. This forum has already saved me multiple times.

 

So here is my problem: I have managed to create a planset and am now plotting my construction details. I hand rendered several images and had them scanned to PDFs at high res, then attached them into my file. When I plot to PDF, gray vertical lines appear in my images. I was able to eliminate a couple by creating clipping boundaries, but some run straight through my images. How can I eliminate these? Again I am new to the program so apologies for lack of knowledge.

Thank you for any help.

 

Best, Kristen

[Dana W]

I am using 2009 LT and I have similar issues. I think AutoCAD shoves so much background data into the pdf that memory has hiccups.

 

I downloaded FREE TrueView 2010 from Autodesk and use that to plot to pdf files. They always seem to come out clean and WAY smaller in file size than AutoCAD. Once you have all your layouts ready, just open the drawing in TrueView and plot with the layouts from the drawings. No manipulations are required, except you will probably have to tell TrueView to ignore unresolved external references. The resulting pdf's will still have on-off layer control.

 

There is one whacky thing. If you are in the habit of opening your dwg files by clicking on the file in win explorer, it will open in TrueView, if that is the last program you used to open one. It has put me in the good habit of opening AutoCAD before the drawing.

 

Since I have LT I cannot plot sheet sets but I believe TrueView can handle them.

[Tankman]

I use Adobe never a problem. From Adobe, you can also save the *.pdf as a *.jpg image or as a number of *.* formats.

 

I've heard excellent results from those using www.cutepdf.com (free too!).

[urbankristen]

Great advice. Thank you so much!

[nukecad]

....... If you are in the habit of opening your dwg files by clicking on the file in win explorer, it will open in TrueView......

 

Usually happens when you have installed Trueview after you have installed Autocad.

 

You should be able to change this in Windows.

 

Control panel > folder options > File types >

pick the .dwg icon from the list

Then change the 'Open With' to Autocad not Trueview.

[Dana W]

Usually happens when you have installed Trueview after you have installed Autocad.

 

You should be able to change this in Windows.

 

Control panel > folder options > File types >

pick the .dwg icon from the list

Then change the 'Open With' to Autocad not Trueview.

 

Yeah, the file association thingy. It shows AutoCAD DWG Launcher as the default opener. It never changes.

Then it opens in TrueView if it was the last program I used.

Once I open AutoCAD and then open the same drawing, it will then open in autoCAD If I click the file itself when AutoCAD is not open.

I think both TrueView and AutoCAD use the same launcher code and it somehow remembers the association of which one was last used.

 

I just work around it by opening the program I want to use first.